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Distributed Objects, Middleware, and Applications
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Many of the world's most important and critical software systems are based on distributed object and middleware technologies. Middleware is software that resides between the applications and the underlying operating systems on every node of a distributed computing system. It provides the "glue" that connects distributed objects and applications and is at the heart of component-based systems, service-oriented architectures, agent-based systems, or peer-to-peer infrastructures.
Distribution technologies have reached a high level of maturity. Classical distributed object middleware (e.g., CORBA, .NET and Java-based technologies) and message-oriented middleware (e.g., publish/subscribe systems) have been widely successful. We are now witnessing a shift to coarser-grained component-based and service-oriented architectures (e.g., Web services). Middleware for mobile applications and peer-to-peer systems (e.g., JXTA) is also gaining increasing popularity, as it allows bridging users without reliance on centralized resources.
Common to all these approaches are goals such as openness, reliability, scalability, awareness, distribution transparency, security, ease of development, or support for heterogeneity between applications and platforms. Also, of utmost importance today is the ability to integrate distributed services and applications with other technologies such as the Web, multimedia systems, databases, or Grids. Along with the rapid evolution of these fields, continuous research and development is required in distributed technologies to advance the state of the art and broaden the scope of their applicability.
Two Dimensions: Research & Practice
Research in distributed objects, components, services, and middleware establishes new principles that open the way to solutions that can meet the requirements of tomorrow's applications. Conversely, practical experience in real-world projects drives this same research by exposing new ideas and unveiling new types of problems to be solved. DOA explicitly intends to provide a forum to help trigger and foster this mutual interaction. Submissions are therefore welcomed along both these dimensions: research (fundamentals, concepts, principles, evaluations, patterns, and algorithms) and practice (applications, experience, case studies, and lessons). Contributions attempting to bridge the gap between these two dimensions are particularly encouraged. As we are fully aware of the differences between academic and industrial research and development, submissions will be treated accordingly and judged by a peer review not only for scientific rigor (in the case of "academic research" papers), but also for originality and relevance (in the case of "case study" papers).
As we are fully aware of the differences in environment for research and development that exist in academia and industry, submissions from each will be treated accordingly and judged by a peer review not only for scientific rigor (in the case of "academic research" papers), but also for originality and generality of applications and case studies (in the case of "case studies" papers).
About DOA
DOA 2007 is part of a joint event on the theme "meaningful Internet systems and ubiquitous computing". This federated event co-locates five related and complementary conferences in the areas of networked information systems, covering key issues in distributed infrastructures and enabling technologies (DOA), data and Web semantics (ODBASE), cooperative information systems (CoopIS), Grid computing (GADA) and Information Security (ISS). More details about this federated event can be found at http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf .
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The topics of this symposium include, but are not limited to:
- Application case studies of distribution technologies
- Aspect-oriented approaches for distributed middleware
- Component-based distributed systems
- Content distribution and multimedia streaming
- Development methodologies for distributed applications
- Distributed algorithms and communication protocols
- Distributed business objects and components
- Distributed databases and transactional systems
- Distributed infrastructures for cluster and Grid computing
- Distributed middleware for embedded systems and sensor networks
- Formal methods and tools for designing, verifying, and evaluating distributed middleware
- Interoperability with other technologies
- Middleware for mobile and ad-hoc networks
- Migration of legacy applications to distributed architectures
- Novel paradigms to support distribution
- Object-based, component-based, and service-oriented middleware
- Peer-to-peer and decentralized infrastructures
- Performance analysis of distributed computing systems
- Publish/subscribe, event-based, and message-oriented middleware
- Reliability, fault tolerance, quality-of-service, and real time support
- Scalability and adaptivity of distributed architectures
- Self-* properties in distributed middleware
- Service-oriented architectures
- Software engineering for distributed middleware systems
- Testing and validation of distributed infrastructures
- Ubiquitous and pervasive computing
- Web services
IMPORTANT DATES
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| Camera Ready Due | September 10, 2007 | ||
| Registration Due | September 10, 2007 | ||
| OTM Conferences | November 25 - 30, 2007 |
Papers submitted to DOA'07 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference.
All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee, and at least two will be experts from industry in the case of practice reports. All submissions must be in English.
The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Author instructions can be found at:
Submissions must not exceed 18 pages in the final camera-ready paper style.
The paper submission site is located at:
Failure to comply with the above formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review.
Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.
ORGANISATION COMMITTEE
OTM'07 General Co-Chairs
- Robert Meersman, VU Brussels, Belgium
- Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia
DOA'07 Program Committee Co-Chairs
- Pascal Felber, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Aad van Moorsel, Newcastle University, UK
- Calton Pu, Georgia Tech, USA
Publicity Chair
- Jean-Marc Petit, INSA, Lyon, France
Program Committee Members
- Mark Baker, Coactus Consulting, Canada
- Guruduth Banavar, IBM, USA
- Judith Bishop, University of Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA
- Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK
- Barrett Bryant, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
- Harold Carr, Sun, USA
- Gregory Chockler, IBM Haifa Labs, Israel
- Brian Cooper , Yahoo, USA
- Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK
- Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, USA
- Tomoya Enokido, Rissho University, Japan
- Patrick Eugster , Purdue University, USA
- Benoit Garbinato, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Aniruddha Gokhale , Vanderbilt University
- Jeff Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
- Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany
- Franz Hauck, University of Ulm, Germany
- Mehdi Jazayeri, University of Lugano, Switzerland
- Eric Jul, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Fabio Kon, University of São Paulo, Brazil
- Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- Joe Loyall, BBN Technologies, USA
- Frank Manola, OBJS, USA
- Nikola Milanovic , Technical University Berlin
- Keith Moore, HP Labs, USA
- Graham Morgan, Newcastle University, UK
- Gero Mühl, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
- Rui Oliveira, University of Minho, Portugal
- Francois Pacull, Xerox Research Center Europe, France
- Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano, Switzerland
- José Pereira, University of Minho
- Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy
- Arno Puder, San Francisco State University, USA
- Andry Rakotonirainy, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- Michel Riveill, University of Nice, France
- Luis Rodrigues, Portugal
- Isabelle Rouvellou, IBM, USA
- Duncan Ruiz, Pontifical Catholic University of RS - Brazil
- Caspar Ryan, RMIT University, Australia
- Rick Schantz, BBN Technologies, USA
- Douglas Schmidt, Vanderbilt university, USA
- Heinz W Schmidt, RMIT University, Australia
- Richard Soley, OMG, USA
- Michael Stal, Siemens, Germany
- Jean-Bernard Stefani, INRIA, France
- Stefan Tai, IBM Research, USA
- Vladimir Tosic, National ICT Australia Limited (NICTA), Australia
- Spyros Voulgaris, ETHZ, Switzerland
- Andrew Watson, OMG, USA
- Shalini Yajnik, Avaya Labs, USA